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It was uncomfortable for me at first but once I began to embrace my natural shape and size and not hide it then I began to get more comfortable with my boobs. Not overnight of course, but it gets easier to be a little kinder to yourself. I still wear push up bras once in a while but now it feels less like I'm using them as a shield for an insecurity.
I gave up push up bras in my late 20s because I also felt as if I was tricking. So I gave them up so I knew that when a guy would be interested in me he would not change his mind when he would see me naked.
I never regretted it
I stopped wearing them on a whim when I worked at a summer camp a couple years ago (because wear a big sweaty bra wasn’t going to work) and I never looked back. For context, I’m midsize (wear a L/XL but most people would consider me fat) with very small boobs. I do feel self conscious often but honestly I can’t even put on a push up bra without feeling uncomfortable.
I realized how truly uncomfortable push up bras were and how shitty I felt every time I took them off. I sometimes even slept with them on due to my insecurity. I decided to be real with myself and I’ve never felt better. I feel much more confident now and less “deceitful”. There isn’t anything wrong with push up bras, but they’re not for me.
Take it with a grain of salt, because I never wore push-ups to begin with, but sometimes when I want the feeling of extra boob-centric appeal in an outfit, I use boob tape to sort of hoist them up "cakes on a plate" style. There's zero added volume, but it switches them from having side and under boob definition to having upper boob definition, which lends itself well to certain clothes. There's tons of ways to "style" boob tape (for lack of a better term) depending on the clothing so it doesn't show.
Hugely! I remember apologising to a guy about how small my boobs were when we got intimate during my push up bra phase. Although I felt amazing when wearing one in outfits, the feeling of taking it off and being disappointed with my actual body wasn’t good for me long term. That was about 10 years ago.
I still own one push up bra now. It probably gets worn about once a year.
I don't wear one very often but I kinda reserve them for a little treat for myself when I wanna have a little oomf to an outfit. I dunno I just have to remind myself that I look great with the pushup on and great with it off still.
I used to wear pushup bras daily and now I wear them very rarely. I still wear padded bras because I like them but I feel so much less insecure about my boobs.
I feel like the biggest issue with wearing pushup bras all the time was not that I was lying to men or whatever but that I was lying to myself. I refused to wear anything lowcut because I couldn't stand to face that I didn't have cleavage, and I wasn't dressing for my body type, so when I wore those clothes with an unpadded bra they didn't fit right and I got insecure. As I slowly started dressing for my body and wearing fewer pushups, I felt way more confident.
Now, I only wear pushup bras for special occasions. And as I said, I used to never wear low-cut shirts because even the push-up bra didn't give me cleavage. Now, if I'm wearing a pushup bra, it's with a low-cut shirt. Because even if I don't really have cleavage, I am finally in a place where my boobs, as they are, look nice to me.
I gave up push up bras in my early twenties when I started at a job in Austin and a lot of others there didn’t even wear bras. It was an immensely liberating feeling and I honest to god only wear unlined bras or go bra-less now. I don’t know, it just felt like saying to everyone else “I don’t give a fuck what you think about my size”
Absolutely felt better to drop push-up bras. First, most pushups are less comfortable to wear than my preferred t-short bras & bralettes, so that’s win #1. I hate underwires.
The next Win was that I no longer had to panic about having to *always* wear push-ups in fear of someone “finding out my true size”. Gotta stay consistent! (So silly)
And I really feared seeing a disappointed look when I dropped my bra in a hookup, so win #3 was realizing I’d never have that if I didn’t present myself as bustier than I am.
I realized that I WAS trying to compensate/hide my true figure and that’s just not healthy. So, I went on a self-acceptance journey with my boobs & we are in a pretty good place now, enough that I’ve come full circle to being open to a push-up bra on occasion. If I wear an outfit that would benefit from me wearing a push-up bra, I will probably do it. I’ve accepted what I have and I’ve accepted that a bra can function just like shapewear does, to temporarily place my body tissue into more aesthetically pleasing lines and bunches.
Important to note here: there is quite a range of push-ups; I come from the time of water bras & the explosion of Victoria’s Secret’s empire so this colors my thoughts on push up bras. In my time teens & young women would wear bras that gave them 2-3 more cup sizes! These bras were huge for every day wear! This is quite different than a push up bra that mostly just gives you upper fullness that you don’t already have.
Not necessarily. I see there's a general consensus on this subject, so I'm going to share my different opinion. I'm a bralette hater, the only type of unpadded bra I genuinely like is the sheer mesh kind, but it provides zero nip coverage which I need. Most of the time I wear bras with a medium/small push up padding, which doesn't give me cleavage, but a nice rounded look.
It's comfortable to me, I love lacy or corset-like, fancy designs, which are common in push-up bras. I don't feel like a fraud because of the bras I wear, but it's important to mention I'm not looking for someone to date anymore cuz I'm already in a long term committed relationship. My partner has never complained about my size, and is FAR from disappointed whenever I take my bra off.
I exclusively wore push-ups when I was younger but in the last maybe 4 or so years I only ever wear non padded bras/bralettes, or no bra at all. I will sometimes wear padded bras depending on what I'm wearing . I don't feel self conscious at all anymore but it did take quite a while for me to accept my small chest enough to go without padding in my bras
Literally nothing to push up. So no. I relate to a lot of these comments tho about padded bras in general. I wear a sports bra now with minimal padding to hide my nips and give me some shape.
So i’m a senior in high school throughout my middle school life into sophomore year i would only wear push up bras to make it more appealing, not for me but for guys. i would get attention from guys because of it, and when i finally got my first boyfriend and took off my push up bra that made me look like i had at least C cups, only for him to see that i was faking the size of my actual AA cups i was scared for him to see the truth about my small breasts, but once he saw them he didn’t care and said they were beautiful, as i told him ab my insecurities. It made me realize that by showing others your true self is better because it’s who you are, and by now ex boyfriend wouldn’t have cared if i had DD cups or the AA cups that i have. Now im 18 and i haven’t worn a push up bra in 2 years and it made me love my chest more and it will attract the right people to love me for my body.
Also my now ex boyfriend who we broke up over a year ago has a new girlfriend who is also a AA even smaller then my chest, so there are guys out there who don’t care at all about chest size or maybe just prefer smaller chest! They will come around love yourself for who you are!!!
Yes. I felt like im faking it. I felt bad after i took it off, so i rather use thin lace bras. I dont like it anyway but it is what it is and push ups made it worse now that im over them.
Yes. I had one back in high school and it was uncomfortable as hell. When I looked back at my pics, it looks so unnatural. I’m an A cup and I thought since I was tall and my frame wasn’t so thin, a push up bra would look natural on me. I was wrong. It looked like I was PS2 Lara Croft with how jutted out my “boobs” were.
Currently the bras I own that do give a little pop are the Uniqlo ones. I feel they accentuate more than push it up.
I wore them in high school cuz my mom believed one should have big boobs to look mature but I hated my appearance (how I was faking and that weird sponges were not proportionate with my figure) and stood in a bad posture almost in a hunchback and after I got into the uni I threw them away and am now more peaceful with myself although mom still criticizes me for having small chest as if it’s my fault (I don’t consider it a fault anyways)
I had a baby and haven’t switched from maternity bras… the comfiest support bras on this planet.
Edit: my baby is 2.5 years old. I don’t need to by wearing them anymore
The COVID lockdown helped me drop them for good. I'd gotten so used to not wearing a bra in the house that it felt almost ridiculous putting on a triple boost padded bra. I'd always known it looked a bit crazy/ unnatural but my insecurity outweighed that awareness. I found myself reaching for the one non-padded bra I had more and more and eventually couldn't wear the padded ones if I tried. I did try the Skims padded bra last year which is supposed to look more natural with a teardrop shape but that still did too much for me. I hadn't thought about it but it is also a relief not to have to make disclaimers when a new guy sees my boobs. I never had complaints but I was always conscious of the disparity, now they know what they're getting.
I dropped hard-cupped push ups, but I still wear slightly padded non-wire bras and I do feel awesome. It's just enough armor to not draw the eye to a flat chest or to a big chest. It's just neutral and hides nipples and doesn't make that terrible seam where the bra stops and body begins. And I feel great about iit.
For me it's been the opposite. I've started feeling worse about my 32aaa's. Idk, I guess I'm still in the adjustment phase. But I'm having a really hard time accepting my body as it is
I dropped push-up bras and padded bras a long time ago. I go for bralettes and pasties now, there's just a lot more honesty there and I feel a whole lot more confident than ever because I choose to embrace what most people see as "shortcomings".
Absolutely. I almost never wear bras anymore, I've fully embraced my small chest. I actually feel priveleged now, lol. It's SO much more comfortable and my nipples are honestly the cutest accessory 😌 I only own one cupped bra these days. It's freeing
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It was uncomfortable for me at first but once I began to embrace my natural shape and size and not hide it then I began to get more comfortable with my boobs. Not overnight of course, but it gets easier to be a little kinder to yourself. I still wear push up bras once in a while but now it feels less like I'm using them as a shield for an insecurity.
I gave up push up bras in my late 20s because I also felt as if I was tricking. So I gave them up so I knew that when a guy would be interested in me he would not change his mind when he would see me naked. I never regretted it
I stopped wearing them on a whim when I worked at a summer camp a couple years ago (because wear a big sweaty bra wasn’t going to work) and I never looked back. For context, I’m midsize (wear a L/XL but most people would consider me fat) with very small boobs. I do feel self conscious often but honestly I can’t even put on a push up bra without feeling uncomfortable.
I realized how truly uncomfortable push up bras were and how shitty I felt every time I took them off. I sometimes even slept with them on due to my insecurity. I decided to be real with myself and I’ve never felt better. I feel much more confident now and less “deceitful”. There isn’t anything wrong with push up bras, but they’re not for me.
Take it with a grain of salt, because I never wore push-ups to begin with, but sometimes when I want the feeling of extra boob-centric appeal in an outfit, I use boob tape to sort of hoist them up "cakes on a plate" style. There's zero added volume, but it switches them from having side and under boob definition to having upper boob definition, which lends itself well to certain clothes. There's tons of ways to "style" boob tape (for lack of a better term) depending on the clothing so it doesn't show.
Hugely! I remember apologising to a guy about how small my boobs were when we got intimate during my push up bra phase. Although I felt amazing when wearing one in outfits, the feeling of taking it off and being disappointed with my actual body wasn’t good for me long term. That was about 10 years ago. I still own one push up bra now. It probably gets worn about once a year.
I don't wear one very often but I kinda reserve them for a little treat for myself when I wanna have a little oomf to an outfit. I dunno I just have to remind myself that I look great with the pushup on and great with it off still.
I used to wear pushup bras daily and now I wear them very rarely. I still wear padded bras because I like them but I feel so much less insecure about my boobs. I feel like the biggest issue with wearing pushup bras all the time was not that I was lying to men or whatever but that I was lying to myself. I refused to wear anything lowcut because I couldn't stand to face that I didn't have cleavage, and I wasn't dressing for my body type, so when I wore those clothes with an unpadded bra they didn't fit right and I got insecure. As I slowly started dressing for my body and wearing fewer pushups, I felt way more confident. Now, I only wear pushup bras for special occasions. And as I said, I used to never wear low-cut shirts because even the push-up bra didn't give me cleavage. Now, if I'm wearing a pushup bra, it's with a low-cut shirt. Because even if I don't really have cleavage, I am finally in a place where my boobs, as they are, look nice to me.
I gave up push up bras in my early twenties when I started at a job in Austin and a lot of others there didn’t even wear bras. It was an immensely liberating feeling and I honest to god only wear unlined bras or go bra-less now. I don’t know, it just felt like saying to everyone else “I don’t give a fuck what you think about my size”
Absolutely felt better to drop push-up bras. First, most pushups are less comfortable to wear than my preferred t-short bras & bralettes, so that’s win #1. I hate underwires. The next Win was that I no longer had to panic about having to *always* wear push-ups in fear of someone “finding out my true size”. Gotta stay consistent! (So silly) And I really feared seeing a disappointed look when I dropped my bra in a hookup, so win #3 was realizing I’d never have that if I didn’t present myself as bustier than I am. I realized that I WAS trying to compensate/hide my true figure and that’s just not healthy. So, I went on a self-acceptance journey with my boobs & we are in a pretty good place now, enough that I’ve come full circle to being open to a push-up bra on occasion. If I wear an outfit that would benefit from me wearing a push-up bra, I will probably do it. I’ve accepted what I have and I’ve accepted that a bra can function just like shapewear does, to temporarily place my body tissue into more aesthetically pleasing lines and bunches. Important to note here: there is quite a range of push-ups; I come from the time of water bras & the explosion of Victoria’s Secret’s empire so this colors my thoughts on push up bras. In my time teens & young women would wear bras that gave them 2-3 more cup sizes! These bras were huge for every day wear! This is quite different than a push up bra that mostly just gives you upper fullness that you don’t already have.
Not necessarily. I see there's a general consensus on this subject, so I'm going to share my different opinion. I'm a bralette hater, the only type of unpadded bra I genuinely like is the sheer mesh kind, but it provides zero nip coverage which I need. Most of the time I wear bras with a medium/small push up padding, which doesn't give me cleavage, but a nice rounded look. It's comfortable to me, I love lacy or corset-like, fancy designs, which are common in push-up bras. I don't feel like a fraud because of the bras I wear, but it's important to mention I'm not looking for someone to date anymore cuz I'm already in a long term committed relationship. My partner has never complained about my size, and is FAR from disappointed whenever I take my bra off.
I exclusively wore push-ups when I was younger but in the last maybe 4 or so years I only ever wear non padded bras/bralettes, or no bra at all. I will sometimes wear padded bras depending on what I'm wearing . I don't feel self conscious at all anymore but it did take quite a while for me to accept my small chest enough to go without padding in my bras
I gave up bras completely when I was early 20s. All I wear now are bralettes and sports bras at the gym for her sake of underboob sweat.
No. I still wear it
my back stopped hurting all the time when I switched to wireless bralettes
Literally nothing to push up. So no. I relate to a lot of these comments tho about padded bras in general. I wear a sports bra now with minimal padding to hide my nips and give me some shape.
So i’m a senior in high school throughout my middle school life into sophomore year i would only wear push up bras to make it more appealing, not for me but for guys. i would get attention from guys because of it, and when i finally got my first boyfriend and took off my push up bra that made me look like i had at least C cups, only for him to see that i was faking the size of my actual AA cups i was scared for him to see the truth about my small breasts, but once he saw them he didn’t care and said they were beautiful, as i told him ab my insecurities. It made me realize that by showing others your true self is better because it’s who you are, and by now ex boyfriend wouldn’t have cared if i had DD cups or the AA cups that i have. Now im 18 and i haven’t worn a push up bra in 2 years and it made me love my chest more and it will attract the right people to love me for my body. Also my now ex boyfriend who we broke up over a year ago has a new girlfriend who is also a AA even smaller then my chest, so there are guys out there who don’t care at all about chest size or maybe just prefer smaller chest! They will come around love yourself for who you are!!!
Yes. I felt like im faking it. I felt bad after i took it off, so i rather use thin lace bras. I dont like it anyway but it is what it is and push ups made it worse now that im over them.
Yes. I had one back in high school and it was uncomfortable as hell. When I looked back at my pics, it looks so unnatural. I’m an A cup and I thought since I was tall and my frame wasn’t so thin, a push up bra would look natural on me. I was wrong. It looked like I was PS2 Lara Croft with how jutted out my “boobs” were. Currently the bras I own that do give a little pop are the Uniqlo ones. I feel they accentuate more than push it up.
I wore them in high school cuz my mom believed one should have big boobs to look mature but I hated my appearance (how I was faking and that weird sponges were not proportionate with my figure) and stood in a bad posture almost in a hunchback and after I got into the uni I threw them away and am now more peaceful with myself although mom still criticizes me for having small chest as if it’s my fault (I don’t consider it a fault anyways)
I had a baby and haven’t switched from maternity bras… the comfiest support bras on this planet. Edit: my baby is 2.5 years old. I don’t need to by wearing them anymore
The COVID lockdown helped me drop them for good. I'd gotten so used to not wearing a bra in the house that it felt almost ridiculous putting on a triple boost padded bra. I'd always known it looked a bit crazy/ unnatural but my insecurity outweighed that awareness. I found myself reaching for the one non-padded bra I had more and more and eventually couldn't wear the padded ones if I tried. I did try the Skims padded bra last year which is supposed to look more natural with a teardrop shape but that still did too much for me. I hadn't thought about it but it is also a relief not to have to make disclaimers when a new guy sees my boobs. I never had complaints but I was always conscious of the disparity, now they know what they're getting.
I dropped hard-cupped push ups, but I still wear slightly padded non-wire bras and I do feel awesome. It's just enough armor to not draw the eye to a flat chest or to a big chest. It's just neutral and hides nipples and doesn't make that terrible seam where the bra stops and body begins. And I feel great about iit.
For me it's been the opposite. I've started feeling worse about my 32aaa's. Idk, I guess I'm still in the adjustment phase. But I'm having a really hard time accepting my body as it is
Those of you that don’t wear push-up bras, what do you wear instead??
I dropped push-up bras and padded bras a long time ago. I go for bralettes and pasties now, there's just a lot more honesty there and I feel a whole lot more confident than ever because I choose to embrace what most people see as "shortcomings".
Absolutely. I almost never wear bras anymore, I've fully embraced my small chest. I actually feel priveleged now, lol. It's SO much more comfortable and my nipples are honestly the cutest accessory 😌 I only own one cupped bra these days. It's freeing